You mentioned above using a dummy train to actually measure the length of the line This will lead to inaccurate conclusions under heavy traffic, because waiting at intersections will greatly extend the arrival time If the trains limit of nearby stations is increased due to the extension of the arri...

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Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:03 pm

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Works great. It is only 4 characters, not language specific, easy to see/recognize, and looks good.

And how do you see if the station is opened or closed ?

In case it might be of some help : Throughput = débit (plutôt pour des object) Flow rate = débit (plutôt pour un fluide) Bandwidth = bande passante (the maximum throughput/flowrate the system can achieve). If you need more output than that, your are throughput limited. mmm to be honest, in this dir...

It seems, that most people stop researching, stop producing modules and stop doing anything, except producing blue belts. So it's very important to have a possibility to produce lube without any by-products, no matter how useful they would be. :twisted: that's when you have finished all research ex...

@Koub , i see you too don't use pump to give priority to the feedback loop of heavy oil toward the ref vs towards the lube machine. I didn't even try without one you better not consume too much heavy oil with the chemplant :). Also i would give a priority on the splitter to output rocket fuel to the...

Sorry I can't explain this in English, it's a bit complicated The unnamed station in front of each station is the so-called guide station. It will be named only when necessary. What I mean is that the problem that the trains limit can solve can actually be solved in the current version, but the tra...

That’s what I was afraid of. (Wasting power) I would rather use the solid fuel and light oil for rocket fuel. But then if the rocket fuel backs up, you can't produce anymore blue belts ! that's precisely what this setup was made for in the first place i assume. ( or robot frame ?). You can think of...

nice ! I wonder if the lube-making machine could potentially eat-up all the heavy oil before some of it goes back to the refinery. which would cause a need to add again some barrels. I tend to add tank+pump in the local loop, and have the pump feed the lube-machine, only if tank is above a minimum t...

What follows is that the number of trains you need is not fixed, but will increase to maintain the same ore supply speed in your factory. So trains limit did not solve the problem Because the upper limit of the number of trains is not a fixed value, but is related to the length of the line from thi...

As far as I know it's nothing more than the fact that with a right hand drive network (which is most common), left turns require crossing the path of trains going the opposite direction, which significantly impacts throughput. With left hand drive, right turns have the same issue, of course. i woul...

Inserter is more like from the idea of "making things complex only for making things complex". It's bad design. Remove it. Inserters are an entity that can hold logic with circuit network: active/unactive, filters, powered/unpowered, stack capacity. Having 2 inserters per assembly machine, one for ...

This is a player design challenge, you can argue it adds complexity to the game that the player has to account for, but people like me say this is what makes the game fun. :D At that point it's up to the player how they want to solve this problem. The easiest thing to say would be "don't do this in...

Disadvantages of double headed: Higher fuel consumption Lower speed and acceleration per locomotive. More complicated signaling Lower throughput What am I missing? Double headed are simpler. They get it at the cost of reducd throughput One disadvantage of the double headed trains , that could make ...

Observations : ISS orbit between 330 and 420 km. None of the actual funders seems to wish or be able to finance it, it may be shut down before 2030. China wants to send one at 340/350km. Low orbit is the most worth it for telecommunication due to shorter travel time for signals. Questions : What is ...

something like this ? : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Surfaces_Reloaded

3. Are not particularly exotic/unique , e.g. clearly by twiddling custom game settings sliders I can achieve the above constraints, but I would like to have settings/goals/struggles that are in common with some reasonable number of other players, to feel part of a common experience. Does that make ...

Your deceleration graph has 2 curves with almost the same purple color....... There's 1 yellow and purple that is showing almost identical data. 1LCCCCCC... and 1L could both have the same decelaration reading your graph, disproving your statement. Or you could be correct, I can't tell your colors ...

Yoyobuae wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:03 pm

That situation can only happen (without player intervention) when circuit network is used.

this map features one event such as the described, thanks for explaining.

I suggest you test this using the mod and setup they use in this thread: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=46855 I thought of it but i'd rather test something else first if i can find the time: The deceleration shown on previous chart is what i would call "natural". The train brake ...

I had anticipated those questionning and was doing the study when you posted. I hope it helps correct mistakes we all made :). I did the Acceleration test on a looping circuit with 2 station A and B, train schedule to A, then B, without waiting condition. ( assuming that the game doesn't make any di...